firstboot did not show up after a fresh install of F8. When I tried to run it by hand I got the traceback below. When I tried that command again using LANG=C it worked but it doesn't work in the swedish locale (sv_SE.UTF-8) that is the default for this system. # firstboot --reconfig starting reconfig mode no image found File "/usr/sbin/firstboot", line 101, in <module> firstbootWindow(fb) File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 150, in __init__ self.loadModules() File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 426, in loadModules loaded = imputil.imp.load_module(module, found[0], found[1], found[2]) File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/smolt.py", line 22, in <module> t = gettext.translation('smolt', '/usr/share/locale', fallback = True) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 480, in translation t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb'))) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 180, in __init__ self._parse(fp) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 316, in _parse plural = v[1].split('plural=')[1]
This is because the Swedish translation file does not include a definition for plural forms, and Python doesn't like that much. This will be fixed in the next build of firstboot and in an update release should I make one.